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KCIC · CIC

Chico Municipal Airport

39.79540°N

-121.85800°W

ARR / DAY

▼ 14.6%

DEP / DAY

▼ 21.7%

Chico Municipal Airport (KCIC/CIC) is a small general aviation airport located in Chico, CA. It features 2 runways with the longest being 6,724 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 18 arrivals and 19 departures per day on average over the last 7 days. Cargo carriers (FedEx, UPS, and similar) operate regularly, accounting for about 4% of observed flights.

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 0 total

NORMAL

Current weather

Latest METAR observation

22h ago

Temp

91°F

Wind

5 kts

0°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

METAR KCIC 231955Z VRB05KT 10SM CLR 33/03 A2990

Runways

2 installed

6,724 FT MAX

Runway intelligence

Which runway carries the operations, observed over the last 30 days

13L

76% of ops

496 land · 0 TO

31R

15% of ops

98 land · 3 TO

31L

7% of ops

44 land · 77 TO

13R

3% of ops

18 land · 561 TO

Runway 13L carries 76% of operations (496 landings, 0 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 31R at 15%.

Approach quality

Per-runway unstable-approach, go-around, and long-rollout rates

13L 496 landings

UA 19%

31R 98 landings

UA 1%

31L 44 landings

UA 20%

13R 18 landings

UA 0%

Approaches to 13L show a 19% unstable-approach rate (94 UA events from 496 landings).Phase B will add wind-correlation: which crosswind band produces most UA events.

Traffic behavior

When the field is busy: hourly + weekday vs weekend

Daily avg

36.0

flights/day · 1,081 total

Busy hour (local)

6pm

also 4pm · 5pm

Day vs night

56%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 5pm–6pm local, averaging 36.0 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 1.2× weekday (41.2 vs 35.8 daily).

Aircraft character

What's actually flying here: top types over the last 30 days

Activity is led by (39% of 789 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11

Type	Freq (MHz)	Hours
CTAF	121.000	—
TWR	121.000	0700-1900
TWR	239.300	0700-1900
GND	121.900	0700-1900
ATIS	119.675	0700-1900
UNICOM	122.950	—
AWOS	119.675	—
LCL/P	121.000	0700-1900
RED BLUF	132.200	—
OTHER	132.200	—
LCL/P	239.300	0700-1900
RED BLUF	350.300	—
OTHER	350.300	—

Airport operations

ARTCC:: ZOA
Mag var:: 16° E
Fuel:: 100LL

Hourly traffic

Avg movements per hour · local time · last 30 days

Pilot & community notes

1 comment from OurAirports (click to expand)

rstan

06/15/2020

(no subject)

Large facility - helpful FBO

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